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IMM Pakistan
2024 - 2025
2024 - 2025
ACADEMIC
PROGRAMME
The IMM-PAKISTAN programme at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE) is a prestigious, two-year programme with the following features:
- Recruitment of gifted local and international students.
- A two-year programme that combines coursework and research.
- Rigorous coursework on modern mathematics combined with cutting-edge research.
- High-calibre faculty and visiting professors from leading institutions engaged in team teaching and joint-supervision.
- Opportunities for short-term research visits for students in the leading international research institutes.
- Graduating students will receive a Master’s degree from LUMS, along with IMM certification.
- All IMM students receive a generous, full scholarship that covers all tuition and living expenses.
On average, international professors are present almost every week of the semester.
The IMM’s innovative teaching model involves programme-wide collaboration between international and local faculty. Each course is taught by a team of one local professor and two international professors who each visit for two weeks, i.e., four weeks in total. This approach means international professors are present almost every week of the semester, enabling students to benefit from international expertise as well as ongoing support from local faculty.
The department’s research environment is enriched by weekly seminars held virtually and/or physically, including the John Conway Spirited Seminar Series. The department also hosts regular workshops and thematic research schools.
COURSES 2024/2025
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About the courses
The IMM-Pakistan academic programme consists of 8 courses (5 courses in the first year and 3 in the second year) in fundamental mathematics whose purpose is to prepare students for advanced research work.
At the end of the first year students choose a topic on which to write their IMM thesis under the co-supervision of an international and a local faculty member. Usually this will be a topic inspired by one of the courses taken in the first year, and co-supervised by the lecturers of that course, but in principle can also be on any other topic of interest as long as appropriate supervisors can be found. During the summer between their first and second year, they start some more in-depth background reading on the topic of the thesis and then continue working on the thesis during their second year. In some cases funding may be available for students to visit their international supervisors for a few weeks.
The IMM thesis is not expected to contain any original publishable results but is expected to go beyond straightforward repetition of material in standard textbooks. It is meant to give students the experience and feeling of doing research and should therefore contain exercises solved independently by the student, who is also expected to be pro-active and demonstrate initiative in the choice of topic and exercises.
During the second year the students also spend a few hours a week as teaching assistants for undergraduate courses, giving them additional experience of communicating and teaching mathematics. Explore the module outlines, below, for details of each course on offer in the current IMM-PAKISTAN programme.
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Applicants Are Divided Into Two Groups: "International Applicants" Who Have Foreign Citizenship And "Pakistani Applicants" Who Either Hold Pakistani Citizenship, Have Dual Citizenship, Or Are Pakistanis Residing Outside The Country.
